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- From: rivin@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Igor Rivin)
- Subject: Re: jump in price of journals
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.193647.24279@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <djoyce.722095513@black.clarku.edu> <1992Nov18.165625.21728@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <hdev.722133059@dutiag>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:36:47 GMT
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- In article <hdev.722133059@dutiag> hdev@dutiag.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught) writes:
- >mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
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- >>Of course, once they start raising their prices, more libraries drop
- >>their subscriptions, and so on. With any luck, this is a signal of an
- >>impending shakeout in scholarly publications.
- >
- >Don't you believe that. The one part of Elsevier that was booming was
- >scholarly publications. Our need to write publications, simply means that
- >either many journals or very thick journals are needed. Either way, your
- >university must pay the prices.
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- Maybe the abysmal job situation in math is causing people to write
- more papers now (to improve their chances). Presumably, as people
- leave mathematics, for lack of employment, there may indeed be a
- shakeout in scholarly journals.
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- As for Elsevier, their prices are absolutely insane, and obviously
- targeted at libraries, not people. Again, with the current state of
- funding, I find it hard to believe that many libraries will find the
- $200 to pay for North Holland/Elsevier books (easily triple Springer
- prices for comparable titles).
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